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| Girls 'do better in single-sex schools' | | By admin |
| Wednesday, March 18, 2009 07:56:00 |
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Girls 'do better in single-sex schools'
Girls achieve better exam results when they are taught in single-sex schools, research has shown.
By Graeme Paton and Matthew Moore
7:56AM GMT 18 Mar 2009
Pupils of all abilities are more likely to succeed if they go to single-sex state schools.
Analysis of Key Stage 2 and GCSE scores of more than 700,000 girls has revealed that those in all-female comprehensives make better progress than those who attend mixed secondaries.
The largest improvements came among those who did badly at primary school, although pupils of all abilities are more likely to succeed if they go to single-sex state schools, the study indicates.
The research by the Good Schools Guide confirms previous claims that girls benefit from being educated away from boys.
A Government-backed review in 2007 recommended that the sexes should be taught differently to maximise results, amid fears that girls tend to be pushed aside in mixed-sex classrooms.
That followed an Israeli study which suggested that when there is a big proportion of boys in a class, both boys and girls do worse academically. Results improved as the percentage of girls in a class increased.
Groups like the Girls' School Association and the Girls' Day School Trust have long claimed that they offer a better education for their pupils, but the number of state schools where boys or girls are educated separately has declined from 2,500 in the 1960s to about 400 today.
The latest research compared the results of 71,286 pupils at all-girl comprehensives to those of 647,691 girls at co-educational comprehensives.
Source: Telegraph.Co.UK
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/5008712/Girls-do-better-in-single-sex-schools.html
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